How do you set good habits without them turning compulsive?

Depends on the good habit, if it’s walk out in nature it’s fine but if it’s like something u do just to relieve ur anxiety and that’s all u want from it then it may be a compulsion

Yeah but how do you keep it from turning from a good habit to an unhealthily rigid "I must do this or my anxiety will spike"

@AnonymouslyMe (see bio) I don’t think good habits will become like that. Can u give me an example?

@Rohan kulkarni Like I'll try to meditate everyday because I want to, then it turns into"if I don't meditate, my anxiety spikes more than it would have if I never started meditating just because I've failed my routine"

@AnonymouslyMe (see bio) Not exactly, but something like that

@AnonymouslyMe (see bio) I think those are not compulsive because u are trying to not act on those thought a tell ur brain are there is no danger by calming down and not obsessing over those thoughts

@Rohan kulkarni I don't think we're on the same page here

@AnonymouslyMe (see bio) Oh sorry I couldn’t understand

@Rohan kulkarni Wish I could be if more help

@Rohan kulkarni Sorry for the late reply. It's fine. I'd rather drop the topic though, for health reasons

I understand wat your tlk bout I looked up excersizes and rote them down so I could do them maybe the first few times there’s no order to it but then I gotta do it exactly the way it’s rote down and if I don’t do all the excersizes in the order I feel wierd and if I don’t have a chance to do them at all I feel wierd it’s suppose to be a relaxing healthy thing to excersize kind of have a good habit then it turns into work you gotta do each 1 and you gotta do it just rite everything good you try to do turns into a habit basically.

I have alot of ocd problems that are like this like everday things you have to do like getting dressed and showering just things you do everday turn into habits now I gotta change my clothes everday in a certain order then put on deodorant use qtips 1 for each ear then wipe my face wit cleanseing pads then put my hair up I’ve been doing that everyday for years and I shower everyday also which becomes a habit I get in get my body wet a certain way get soap wash my body in a certain order left arm rite arm chest stomach left leg rite leg privates then my bottom my back then done and then I rinse off in the same order I shave left armpit rite armpit left leg rite leg then privates I also wash my hair in a particular order it’s suppose to be an everyday normal relaxing thing but for some reason daily things need to be done in order it’s not necessarily a debilitating thing it’s just aggravating you gotta do things a certain way sometimes I wanna just run threw things like normal maybe I don’t have time to do something one day I’d like to just be able to do it like a normal person but I can’t rite now.